Discussion: Chair announced that
minutes were not yet ready for approval

Action
Taken:
Tabled until next meeting by consensus

Assigned
additional duties to:

Agenda
Item:
Announcements

Discussion:

Chair
reported on his meeting with the Committee on Committees regarding proposed
changes to EPPC charge. Said committee requested that EPPC reconsider it
recommendations based on two points: 1) it is not necessary to change the
charge for the Graduate School Administrative Board to have representation on
EPPC, since the Chancellor, Provost, and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
are free to choose their representative from among the membership of that
body—nor did the Committee on Committees deem it advisable to
remove either Vice Chancellors’ representation 2) Appendix F, which
restricts voting privileges concerning graduate school matters to faculty with
full graduate faculty status, was approved by neither any Chancellor nor by the
Faculty Senate. Therefore, although it remains part of the Faculty Manual, its should be deemed
a policy document for use within the Graduate School only.

Action
Taken: The
committee agreed by consensus not to resubmit the proposal to the Committee on
Committees.

Assigned
additional duties to: The EPPC charged the chair with informing all concerned
parties, and with urging that Appendix F be updated and put through the
approval procedure specified by university guidelines for inclusion in the
Faculty Manual.

Chair
informed the committee that the Yardley Group Report is a first draft and not
yet policy, and therefore should not be used in the evaluation of proposals.

Discussion: None

Action
Taken:
None

Assigned
additional duties to: NA

At the
chair’s request, L. Griffin presented an inquiry from Special Education
as to whether they needed EPPC approval to advertise their BS degree as a DE
degree, noting that it had received approval to offer the courses as DE, and
that the program is available entirely in on-line format.

Discussion: Committee clarified that
the courses were already being given as DE and that quality control policy was
being applied.

Action
Taken:
Agreed by consensus that it was not necessary for SPED to again request
permission.

Agenda
Item:
Consideration of request by the Dept. of Business, Career, and Technical
Education; College of Education,
to offer BS degree in Business Education as DE.

Discussion: Prof. Ivan Wallace
presented the proposal. Discussion ensued regarded the qualifications of
faculty delivering these courses, future staffing needs, the impact on tenure
track faculty’s workload, whether the program offered at NC A&T was
also DE. Some concern was expressed that new positions available would not keep
paced with enrollment increases occasioned by the DE format.

The
committee made two non-binding recommendations: that an updated and complete
roster of faculty teaching the courses be provided and that BCTE explain how
the data on p.4 of the proposal was gathered, before the proposal is submitted
to GA.